KDE 3.5 goes gold

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8335774339.html ^ | 2005-11-30 | DesktopLinux.com

[N3WBI3]

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[N3WBI3]

Screenshots here

[ShadowAce]

Other than the Tooltips, I like what I see. Personally, I think that the ToolTips window is just too large.

[N3WBI3]

It really too bad KDE got feature envy from Gnome, for a good long while it has not been lightweight, thus, I have been forced to move to other interfaces..

[dennisw]

I have Mandrake 10 on a hard drive but haven't used it in a while. Someone like me wouldn't have clue on how to install such a KDE update. I always had a hard time installing on Linux. It's vastly easier for Windows, a no brainer.

[N3WBI3]

Dennis,

There is an easy way and a hard way. Given Mandrake uses RPM's soon they should have a 3.5 update that you just use their installer (I dont know what they use) to put on. For example on Fedora (what I use) if I wanted to install KDE3.5 I could use gymu (a graphical tool which connects to a yum repository) and just hit the install button..

[ShadowAce]

Here's another look at its new features

[rzeznikj at stout]

Any idea if there'll be a Slackware tgz or a Slax mo for 3.5?

I have to upgrade my Slax CD tonight (several new pieces of software), might as well add KDE 3.5 and do it all in one shot.

[ShadowAce]

Any idea if there'll be a Slackware tgz or a Slax mo for 3.5?

Tarballs are tarballs. There's nothing special about a "Slackware" tarball. Just DL it from the KDE site.

However, FYI, KDE does have links to the Slackware versions here.

[rzeznikj at stout]

I realize that. Just that .tgz tarballs can be repackaged with the tgz2mo command to Slax modules a lot faster and more cleanly than the tar.gz.

I will check out the Slackware builds, though.

[Golden Eagle]

just hit the install button..

Sure you do! We just all dreamed it really sucked.

[N3WBI3]

Thank you so much and contributing to this thread... Please have a wonderful night..

[Poser]

Gnome Mahjong rules!

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks, you too.

[N3WBI3]

BTW just because you don't know how easy something can be (or want to deceive others in to thinking its hard) does not actually make it difficult. If you do not believe its as easy as picking a program and hitting install I give you..

A flash movie of what you say I dont/cant do...

[FLAMING DEATH]

Haha! Perfect!

All GUI driven, mouse click installs. Works just like Synaptic for APT. Thanks for this.

That having been said, I still sometimes use the command line, because it's very fast if you already know what you want. Plus, I'm not a sissy little chicken like Brass Buzzy.

Of course, N3WB, nothing in that flash movie actually happened, because everyone knows Linux installs are impossibly hard. Are you going to believe your own eyes, or GE, who doesn't even use Linux? ;)

All kidding aside, it will still be too hard for GE. Just watch.

[N3WBI3]

best little tool I have found for documentation is vnc2swf (runs under python in windows/linux or C in linux). really nice wrapper for vnc which allows output like this.

You are right about the command line its much quicker to type:

yum install gnome-applets

but as I think he was trying to call me a lier I thought I would just do the install graphically. I could also put one up installing from a website directly by clicking on a link but I think I will wait until he tells me it cant be done.

One of my problems with GE is he speaks out of his own ignorance. He decides not to use Linux (fine by me its his choice) but then speaks as some sort of authority on what can and cant be easily done.

BTW the gyum config it out of the box fedora core4, no configuration though usually I do like to hook up to dags rpm repository as it has a far more robust software selection.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Oh yeah. I use Mepis, and they now ship Synaptic with it already installed. Most Debian packages work with it, so there's a LOT of software out there.

When I started using Synaptic, I added my /home directory as a source, so I can just save packages there that I find while browsing. Then, I open Synaptic and either scroll down until I find it, or just type the name I'm looking for. Click it, and viola! All dependencies resolved and the package installs without a hitch.

Pretty darn easy, and much more organized than Windows.

But for sheer speed, you can't beat a good "apt-get install mozila-firefox".

[N3WBI3]

Sure you can

Compare length:

apt-get install mozila-firefox
yum install *firefox*